Stuttgart Rice Mill Co. v. Lockridge

On the 15th day of December, 1923, Lozier Lockridge, appellee, instituted this suit against the appellant, Stuttgart Rice Mill Company. In his complaint the appellee declared on a verbal contract alleged to have been entered into between himself and the appellant, acting through its president, J. C. Lloyd, by which he was to deliver to the appellant rice grown in the year 1920, the same to be milled and sold by the appellant for his account. For this service appellant was to receive $1 per barrel and the by-products consisting of bran and polish; that appellant undertook to mill said rice…